The podcast explores how voice patterns can detect health conditions, using AI to analyze acoustic biomarkers. It discusses the potential of smartphones in health detection, the importance of individual nuances in tracking health, and the challenges of balancing privacy with data integrity in AI development.
AI can detect subtle changes in voice to predict sickness.
Building a database of voice recordings aids AI in monitoring health conditions.
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What does sickness sound like? Sometimes it’s obvious, like a cough, sniffle, or stuffy nose. But some conditions cause subtle changes that only a trained ear – or AI – can detect. Dr. Yael Bensoussan is a professor of otolaryngology and the director of the Health Voice Center at the University of South Florida. Her problem is this: How do you build a giant, public database of thousands of voice recordings, and use it to train AI tools that can hear when people are getting sick?